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37signals Backpack Organizer Now Offers Options for Groups

37signals has delivered an update to its Rails-based Backpack data organization utility. Whereas the software would formerly only operate as a personal manager for users, it has been updated to provide groups of people the option to keep track of all manner of information.

The company behind the software is now marketing the product as the revival of the intranet. Or, more specifically, they have labeled the new Backpack an intranet solution that colleagues and associates would actually want to use.

And one could see why they are selling it as such. Backpack at its core is an eminently simple Web-based organizer that behaves in a easy, clear, and intuitively understandable fashion. All is straightforward. Nearly ever function is designed to be ready to use, right from the start.

And now, nearly 3 years since its first launch, it gives users the option to do some group-think. A much-needed evolutionary step. Everything’s about social business these days, and it only makes sense for 37signals to expand the powers of Backpack to be, like a number of its other software titles, multi-player.

Some might consider the software created by 37signals too elementary and too bareboned to be used to any great extent. But if confusing excess in features is what you are troubled by, and want to get things done without fiddling with settings and extemporaneous gadgets, 37signals does a decent job of providing the essentials.

According to the company's site copy, some 300,000 people were using Backpack prior to Tuesday’s news. And, as seen on the company’s Signal vs. Noise blog, Backback has witnessed some 317 paid upgrades and 61 new paid registrees within the first 24 hours of the new product launch.

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